SNIPPET: “Chinas military is conducting extensive cyber warfare and spying operations through several electronic intelligence units, including a group identified for the first time called Beijing North Computing Center, according to a new report by a private research group.

Chinese cyber espionage poses an advanced persistent threat to U.S. national and economic security, states the report, set for publication Friday.

The report by the Project 2049 Institute, an Arlington, Va.-based think tank that focuses on Asian security issues, concluded that groups operating from Chinese territory have been waging a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting U.S. government, industrial, and think tank computer networks.”